Sirio Maccioni Quotes

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.

I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolutely petrified because you can't take anyone with you, and no other sportspeople were there. There was the head of the military, and then the Queen sat next to me.

The weirdest place someone has asked me for advice was at a party where there were a lot of A-list celebrities and super-wealthy people. There were people in the middle of mingling asking for investment advice, and I'm like, 'Hey, I'm just here to dance. I'm here to have fun!'

I'm not being arrogant or blase, but I got a bigger buzz sitting opposite Jean-Bernard Delmas over lunch at Chateau Haut-Brion than I did from interviewing Elton John, Liza Minelli or Whitney Houston.

It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.

College acceptances, particularly of high-profile teens and celebrities, make the news cycle each year.

It's nice to have famous people love you.

I've never put a lot into being a celebrity, that just flies over my head because that's not really who I am. But as you can imagine, you get exposed to a lot of different things because of what you do and I lived a pretty excessive lifestyle.

I've not gone out of my way to live a celebrity lifestyle, which I could easily have done.

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

Vijay Mallya is a star, not an actor. Anybody who lives a lifestyle of that kind, is a star.

I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.

The horrible thing about Death of princess Diana - the sacrificial lamb, which she was. And I believe, in a sense, John Kennedy, Jr. was the same thing. These are people that we loved so much that we drove them berserk with all the attention and they basically didn't have any particular stellar talents. They were just in some kind of a position somewhere where we fixed on them and they became, literally, sacrificial lambs

I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of hedonism.

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight.

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.